ONCE upon a time there was a man – a man inexorably admired and treated as a demigod by this generation and the next generation for his accurate, ingenious transcendental bulldozer political moves in IYC and for his accurate deadly blows rhetorically delivered a priori against governors notorious for infrastructural strangulation of Delta Ijaws.   This Torugbene-born man in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State, the proprietor and Commander-General of the ingeniously radicalised juggernaut he has purposely built to powderise the political machinery of any blundering governor in the territories geographically demarcated Ijaw territories by his own special cartographers imported from unknown western countries, was called Pereotubo Roland Oweilaemi at birth but after many years of creative perfection of his two proverbial policies, he is now called Barrister Pereotubo Roland Oweilaemi, the uncrowned president II of Ijaw Youth Council whose battered tenure is still struggling to acquire the outgrowth-status in the shrubbery.

On the radio was a sensational headline being read out by the anchor person, notwithstanding, Abians were more interested in the main issue. I dialed the station’s number some couple of times before a voice echoed that I should go ahead and add my voice to the trending issue. At first, I mustered few words despite all my efforts to get hooked to the Newspaper reviewer.

Seven years ago, I took an official trip to Kenya to represent the firm I worked for at the maiden edition of Airtel International Partners Conference. As soon as I walked out of the arrival hall at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, I earnestly began to look for place to charge my phone in order to make a call to my host.

Sometime in May, 1993, another rally of the Social Democratic Party, SDP just ended at about 7.45pm in Oshogbo, Osun State. The June 12, 1993 election was few weeks away. The political correspondents from Tribune, Sketch, Third Eye and Vanguard checked into the hotel reserved for them as usual. This has become a routine for us, as I was the Vanguard correspondent attached to the SDP South West zone. The campaigns were zoned with the party’s zonal leaders leading, and sometime the Presidential Candidate, Bashorun MKO Abiola will be present.

How can a contractor who lives in Warri, construct an NDDC road in Warri that could not last for three months?

Speaker Delta State House of Assembly,   Rt Hon Sheriff Oborevwori (JP) MNIM, my mentor and boss of all bosses is a year older today. 

There has been nothing in recent memory like the build up to Nigeria’s first match at the on-going 2018 FIFA World Cup tournament in Russia.

YES, the truth has always been with us that the Nigerian legislature is a den of robbers. From the beginning of this democratic set-up in 1999, till the date of this 8th National Assembly, it is true that corruption of monumental dimension has become recognizable symbol of the Legislature.

The decision to pen this  article came to me impromptu.  I stumbled on a news item on an online medium, The Sun (UK), published February 18, 2018, which flashed a blistering news caption. It boldly read;  “Terror, Exchange Programme: ISIS Commanders Sneaking Jihadis Into Nigeria From Syria to Train Them for Possible Attacks on Britain,” a story written by  David Willetts,  the  newspaper’s Defence Editor in Kaduna, Nigeria.

To say I was stunned when Asiwaju Bola Tinubu said Buhari had fulfilled his campaign promises and deserved a second term would be an understatement. I mean it is the holy month of Ramadan for goodness sakes. Even if Bola Tinubu wanted to spew such nonsense, why would he do it at a time when the Muslim Ummah should be displaying piety.